Happy Birthday Cason!

Dear Cason,
Hey big 7 year old!  Seeing you go off to 1st grade this year was so hard for me.  I don't know what it is about you going to school all day.  But for some reason it makes me feel like you are such a BIG kid!  The beginning of the year was really a struggle for you.  I am so glad to see you getting the hold of this whole all day thing.  It was so neat that you entered the reflections contest.

You made two different airplanes.  One of your airplanes won 2nd place how cool is that!  You were so excited about your special pin.  You are such a creative boy.  I love to see the lego creations you come up with.  You can spend hours on end building legos or playing transformers.  Lego ninjago seems to be your current favorite type of legos.  You also really like to watch videos of this series on netflix.  I sometimes wish you would be a little more kind to your baby sister.  To you she seems to be more of a bother.  I often hear you yelling at her to get out of your room and not touch your legos when all she really wants to do is look at them.





Fear is not a word in your vocabulary when it comes to rides!  You love going on all the big rides.  This fall you were able to get onto Colossus because your hood made you look taller.  That made your entire night!
You still love to talk anyone's ear off that will give you that time.  (Sometimes when when they don't have the time you still do it).  You are such a sweet, special boy.  Dad and I love you so much and just love the great things you do!

Some fun facts about you right now.
you love:

• Legos
• Transformers
• Ninjago
• Talking everyone's ear off
• Octanauts
• Watching transformer videos on the i-pad
• still loves his blanket
• going on rides at Lagoon
• giving cuddles
• four wheel rides
  
  
  
  
  

Halloween 2014

 

 Darling outfit I found at the DI for her to wear during October.  It was so cute it had black tulle along the bottom. 

 

My Team is so awesome.  We decided to dress up as Carebears for Halloween.  I was Love A lot Bear.  The kids thought it was great we were all the same.

 

 Having to show off our little tails and hearst too.

Here are the boys and I off to school for our Halloween parties.  My Knight and shining armor and Zombie Steve from Minecraft.  After school we went to Jamba Juice and got a free smoothie if you are in a costume.

My darling little Elephant!  Isn't she the cutest thing?

 

After Jamba juice we went to the Mall for some trunk or treating.  Tay loved this.  She didn't want to sit in her stroller she wanted to walk from store to store.  Granted she had just learned to walk so this was so cute to watch.  She would hold her arm up high and have her bucket on her arm like a purse.  I have the cutest video of her but it won't load.

 

We went to our annual Halloween Carnival at the Clearfield Aquatic center after Weston's 8th birthday party.  Dayton, Ashton, and Braxton joined us in the fun. 

Here are all the boys and my sweet Tater.

Cason playing a ball and chain bowling game. 

Taylyn playing in the pit of balls she thought this was so fun.

We also went to the Syracuse City Pumpkin Walk.  It is always so fun to see all the great pumpkins.  This year we entered pumpkins into the display.

My sweet boys.

 

Weston with his minecraft pumpkin he made.

My pumpkin.  Isn't it a beaut? Ha!

This year we also went to my mom's ward trunk or treat.  Cason had more fun handing out the candy then trick or treating.  I love that boy :)

 

Taylyn helped cason.  Well not really she didn't want to part with her suckers.

Here they all are all dressed up.  Weston's minecraft head was so heavy and hard to see out of this was the only time he was Steve.  Afterward he switched to be Zombie Steve and I painted his face.

First Haircut

Today Taylyn had her first haircut.  I have been hearing that to make a baby's hair grow you should cut off the ends that have been growing.  So I finally did it.  I also needed to even it out.  My friend Kim who is also my hair stylist came to the house to do it.  Tay was so funny.  She was all smiles and then her lip....it slowly started to protrude out more and more.  Until after a few minutes tears were streaming down her face.  It was so funny because she wasn't having anything done that would hurt her.  She is such a sensitive soul.  Turned out so cute!

 

The protruding lip....

Finally she had enough and the tears began to stream.

 All done. 

 Looks like a cute little bob.  Love this girlie!

Weston's Minecraft Birthday Party

 For Weston's 8th Birthday he wanted to have a Minecraft birthday party.  It was pretty fun planning his party.  My mom and I made his cake.  It turned out pretty amazing.  We found some on pinterest and then made our version of them. We couldn't decide on just one and since we had so much cake and figurines we made TWO cakes.  Look how great they looked and they tasted so good. 

 

 Cake 1

Cake 2

Weston helped me make creeper and spider balloons for decorations.

For favors Weston picked Minecraft parody songs and we made CD's for everyone they also got TNT twizzlers.

 The two cutest attendees of the party.  I just love Taylyn and Quincy they are bound to be best friends.

One of the games we played was Don't Eat Steve which is the Minecraft version of Don't Eat Pete

 

 

 

 Weston also wanted to play pin the pickax on Steve.  I drew Steve and he colored it.  Weston was very hands on with this party this year.

 After playing games the kids opened presents.

Time for cake and singing Happy Birthday!

 

 

For lunch the kids ate pizza, Weston's all time favorite.

As you can see someone really enjoyed her creeper cupcake.  She was a green mess.

8 is Great!

Dear Weston,
Happy 8th Birthday Weston!  Wow 8 years old.  You seem so old and grown up at times and yet me sweet little boy at other times.  I love that at 8 you still would rather cuddle next to me then sit alone or sleep alone.  I love that you are so big that you can do so much independently.  We are so alike that at times it scares me.  Most of our conflicts come because I think we are one in the same.  You amaze me every day with all you do.  Though you stuggle with your eyesight you are very smart and preform well on most academic situations.  You generally only need to be taught once how to do something and you have it.  You definately have a subborn streak (I will blame your father for this), once you have something in your mind there is no way to change it or get you to move on.  I love your current obsession with mindcraft.  Reading all about it in books, watching youtube videos or playing minecraft is your favorite activity.  Weston, you are the sweetest brother to Taylyn.  Such a protector of her and always watching out for her.  I wish you could be as sweet to Cason as you are to Taylyn.  Cason and you are like oil and vinegar some days and others you are best friends.  I guess this is the nature of brothers.  Pizza is your all time favorite food.  Whenever I ask you what you want to for dinner, without fail I hear, "pizza".  For some reason you love to scream like a girl which has resulted in a very hoarse sounding voice for the last 6 months.  You love animals and are such a caretaker.  You just want to love on Daisy even when she just wants to runaway.  I love you so much Weston and I hope your 8th birthday is as great as you are.
Love, Mom

15 months

Taylyn is 15 months.  Where in the world has the time gone?  I don't think I can say that enough.  Time flies by to incredibly fast.

Getting ready to go to Frightmares.

 Cute mustache pic Amanda took.

 Cute Halloween outfit.

Her hair is getting long enough for us to do a pony.  Looked so cute until naptime.

Accomplishments: 

• WALKING!!!!!  She is finally walking.  Tay has been standing for quite some time but she is finally walking.  And guess what got her to walk.  A PURSE!  My mom was watching her one night while I was getting my nails done and she had been playing with this book box that had a handle like a purse and she was wearing it like a purse for hours.  So we took the box and handed it to my mom and put her a few feet away in my arms.  She took the steps she needed to get to the purse.  Ha!  I love that an accessory is what got my daughter to walk.  Such a sweetheart.
• Vocabulary: Hi, bye, mom, dad, cay cay (Cason), no no, Bubba (Weston).  I am sure I have forgotten some. 

Our friend Ryan has twins.  Taylyn was so cute.  She kept looking between the two and saying "baby".  Tay wanted to hold them and feed them.  She also kept giving them toys.  Too cute!

 



Clothes: 6-12 months, 9 months.  Size 2 shoes
Diapers: size 2
Food:  Anything.  Sippy of milk first thing in the morning and then regular meals throughout the day. 
Sleep: 8-7 every night.  Amazing sleeper.

Because she looked so cute!

Stats: 

• Weight: 19 pounds 7 oz (20% biggest she's been since she was born)
• Height: 29.5 (10%)

Snuggling with Daddy.  Those fingers.